The startling thing about the tone adopted by Francis is the way he avoids two extremes. When religious conservatives, clerical or lay, speak out in denunciation of the decadence of modern times, they often seem to be saying something like: "What a wicked world this is, just imagine how dreadful it is for virtuous people like ourselves, and virtuous institutions like the ones we represent, to have to share the earth with such terrible sinners...." Especially when it comes from a religious body (the contemporary Catholic church) which is widely perceived to have abused power through mistreating children and mismanaging money, such talk can easily be nauseating, even for people who have no strong feelings, positive or negative, about matters of faith. At the other end of the spectrum, liberal religious discourse, with its eager embrace of progressive worldly causes, can seem uninteresting at best, undignified at worst, in its haste to embrace the concerns of the modern world without bringing anything different or original to the table. However little they know or care about religion, many people instinctively mistrust that sort of talk, which seems to be craving the approval of secular society. Pope Francis, on the other hand, falls into neither camp, and therefore may end up exasperating both. But that is probably to his credit. 최근 프란시스 교황 인터뷰 기사 중에서..
Posted on: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 02:59:43 +0000
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